agitate

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To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel.

To move or actuate.

To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was greatly agitated.

To discuss with great earnestness; to debate; as, a controversy hotly agitated.

To revolve in the mind, or view in all its aspects; to contrive busily; to devise; to plot; as, politicians agitate desperate designs.

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By silencing the mind, we can experience real peace. As long as various kinds of thoughts agitate the brain, we don't experience 100 percent peace. Henepola Gunaratana

The problems that agitate one generation are exstinguished for the next, not because they have been solved but because the general lack of interest sweeps them away. Cesare Pavese

It is a thorny undertaking, and more so than it seems, to follow a movement so wandering as that of our mind, to penetrate the opaque depths of its innermost folds, to pick out and immobilize the innumerable flutterings that agitate it. Michel de Montaigne

Christ himself would agitate against them. He would agitate against the plutocrats and hypocrites who tell workers to go down on their knees and get right with God. Christ, the carpenter's son, would tell them to stand up on their feet and fight for righteousness and justice on earth. Mary Harris Jones

I have reason to know, as do many of you, that when the evidence on a controversial subject is fairly and calmly presented, the public recognizes it for what it is--an effort to illuminate rather than to agitate. Edward R. Murrow

Clouds pass and disperse. Are those the faces of love, those pale irretrievables? Is it for such I agitate my heart? Sylvia Plath

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